NICCOLO, called NICOLETTO, an eminent Italian painter, was born at Venice in 1659, and became a disciple of his father Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a Genoese, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardino Strozzi. Having painted portraits of some of the English nobility, Niccolotto was invited to England and introduced to Queen Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favour. He died in London in 1713.